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Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr

B Byrd

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Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr

On Monday, we headed into Dresden to visit the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr. We knew we'd never get through it in a day (seems to be a bit of a consistent theme with museums lately), and this was vindicated. We did get (mostly) through the two main floors, which were themed around three main eras of German military history: 1300s to 1914, 1914 to 1945 (the World Wars), and 1945 to today.

It was very interesting to be in a military museum in former East Germany (Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR)) where there was a significant focus on both World Wars (though being on the "losing" side), as well as the post-WW2 division and subsequent reunification.

Armoured vehicles — both western (Bundesrepublik Deutschland (BRD)) and eastern (DDR).
The infamous Soviet Hind (Mil Mi-24) helicopter.
V2 rocket from the very late stages of WW2.
1300-1914 Era.
Evolution of personal protection.
A model of a 47.3m-long railway siege gun called "Dora".
Dora's ammunition — 3.6m long.
The museum had a special Napoleonic Wars exhibit while we were there.
Denazification exhibit.
Personal stories of land mine victims.
We managed to get to most of level 0 and 1.

We saw only a few other visitors at this huge museum during our afternoon there, and it cost only €7 ($11.45 AUD) for a family ticket!

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